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PATENT FRANoIs s; KINNEY, or PEQANAC, NEW JEasEY, AND WILLIAM H. BUT- LER, oF BRooKLYN, NEW YORK, AssreNoRs To THE KINNEY ToBAooo eoMPANY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

ClGARETTE-BOX.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Pate-ni: No. 369,063, ate August 30, 1887.

Application filed May 12, 1887. Serial No. 237,935. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that we, FRANOIS S. KINNEY and WILLIAM H. BUTLER, citizens of the United States, residing at Pequanac, Morris county, New Jersey, and Brooklyn, Kings county, New Yorlgrespectively, have invented certain new and useful Improvementsin Cigarette-Boxes, fully described and represented in the following specification and the accompaio nying drawings, forming a part of the same.

This invention relates to a box or package which is especially designed for use in putting up cigarettes for the retail trade, itubeing the object of the invention to provide a package 1'5' for this purpose which will serve asa convenient pocket-reeeptacle for the cigarettes until the lot eontained in the package is used.

The invention relates partieularly to a means for preventing the cigarettes from moving from their proper places in the box after a part of the lot has been used.

In order to give a full understanding of the invention, it will now be described in detail, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, in which- Figure 1 is a plan view ofa cigarette box or package constructed according' to the present invention,the cover of the box being removed, so as to expose the contents. Fig. 2is a similar view showing a portion of the contents removed. Fig. 3 is a cross-section taken on the line x x of Fig. 1, showing the cover applied to the box. Fig. 4 is a similar view showing a part of the contents removed; and Figs. 5,

6, 7 are similar views illustrating slight modificatious, which will hereinafter be explained.

Referringl to said figures, it is to be understood that the box A is of rectangular form and of sufficient depth to hold two or more rows or layers of the cigarettes, a. The upper edges of the side of the box are cut away, as indicated at b, to expose the ends of the cigarettes. The corners of the box are, howevcr, left of full height, so as to afford support for the cover and prevent it from pressing too heavily upon the cigarettes. This feature, however, forms no part of the invention, it -being claimed in a separate application filed by Francis S. Kinney and now pending in the Patent Office.

The cover B is' of substantially the same form as the box-body, but is slightly larger, so as to fit over the body in the usual manner, as illustrated in Figs. 3 to 6.

' WVith the box constructed as thusl far described there is no means, after a portion of the cigarettes have been removed,for preventing those remaining in the box from shifting their position, so as to rattle about the box and thus Shake the tobacco out of the Wrappers, and this, when the box is carried in the pocket of the user, is a serious objection, as

tained in position until the top rowis entirely removed, as indicated in Figs. etto 6, and by means of the upward projection c'the cigarettes of the top row are prevented from moving but very little, even -after a portion of them have been removed.

The retaining-strip O may be made in a variety of Ways, the preferred construction being that shown in Figs. 1 to 4, in which the strip is shown as composed of a plain piece of card-board or pasteboard bent at its middle, so as to form the projection c, and ofa length to just fit easily into the box-body, so that after the upper row of cigarettes is used the strip can readily be removed and replaced as it is desired to remove the cigarettes of the lower row. The retaining-strip may, however, be modified in its form without departing from the essential feature of the invention. For example, it may, if preferred, be provided Withdownwardly-turncd ends d, as shown in Fig. 5, which will cause it to fit more snugly into the box-body; or the projection c, instead of being formed by bending the strip, as shown in Figs. 1 to 5, may be formed of a lip cut out of the strip and turned up at right angles, as shown in Fig. 6.

In some cases it may be desired that the retaining-strip should be attached to the box- IOO body, and this can readly be donc by making the Strip in two parts and cementing the downwardly-turned ends to the sidcs of the boxbody, as shown in Fig. 7. In this case, in-

stead of removing the retaining-strip to gain.

` those shown are deenied sufiicient, as they fully iilustrate the invention and the manner of applying the same.

We are aware of the Constructions described intheUnited StatesLetters Patent Nos. 165, 233, 315,454, and 194,914, and we do not ciaim any thing thercin shown; but

What we do claini isi The herein-described cigarette-boX, consisting of the box-body and its cover and the rctaining-strip O, of less Width than the box, but extending the length of the box between two rows or iayers of cigarettes, so as to bear against and hold both rows in place, and having the npward projection c, which passes between two of the cigarettes of the npper row and rests against the cover, substantially as described, and for the purposes set forth.

In testimony whereof we have hereunto set our hands in the presence of two subscribing witnesscs.

FRAVNCIS S. KINNEY. KVM. H. BUTLER.

Witnesses:

EDWARD T. SMITII, Bonum I. WYMAN. 

